Korea s provincial governments and foreign embassies in Korea agreed Friday to promote “local diplomacy” in a bid to strengthen multilateral cross-border relations involving subnational administrations. The agreement came on the sidelines of the first Korea Local Diplomacy Forum: Glocal Brand Strategy in the Era of Local Diplomacy, jointly held by The Hankoo Ilbo, its sister paper The Korea Times, the Korean Association of Northeast Asia Studies and the Governors Association of the Republic of Korea (GAROK).
Diplomats based in Seoul had an opportunity to visit a museum dedicated to Ban Ki-moon, former U.N. secretary general and chairman of the Ban Ki-moon Foundation for a Better Future, and explore his legacy. The foundation invited some 60 members of the foreign diplomatic community and their family members to the Peace Museum of 8th U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in Eumseong County, North Chungcheong Province, Friday.
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